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A service management system for devices with embedded processor systems manages use of memory by programs implementing the services by assigning services to classes and limiting the number of services per class that can be loaded into memory. Classes enable achieving predictable and stable system behavior, defining the services and service classes in a manifest that is downloaded to embedded devices operating on a network, such as a cable or satellite television network, telephone or computer network, and permit a system operator, administrator, or manager to manage the operation of the embedded devices while deploying new services implemented with applications downloaded from the network when the service is requested by a user.

A near field RF communicator (100) has an inductive coupler (102) and a first signal provider (109, 110, 111) to cause the inductive coupler to provide a first signal that when inductively coupled to the inductive coupler of another near field RF communicator in near field range is insufficient to cause initiation of communication with that other near field RF communicator. A sensor (116) senses a change in an impedance of the inductive coupler (102) due to inductive coupling of the first signal between the inductive couplers of the said near field RF communicator and a said other near field RF communicator in near field range. A controller (107) determines whether or not another near field RF communicator is in near field range on the basis of any change in impedance sensed by the sensor and, if another near field RF communicator is determined to be in near field range, causes a second signal to be inductively coupled to the other near field RF communicator to initiate communication between the two near field RF communicators. The sensor may use a phase detector (118) to enable a change in impedance to be sensed by detecting a change in a current-voltage phase relationship resulting from a change in impedance.

A packet processing device has a search engine module including an associative memory for transferring a packet on the basis of an entry mapping to route information, a first processor taking charge of a pre-search process before a process of the packet to the search engine module, and a second processor taking charge of a post-search process for executing a process of routing the packet on the basis of a search result of the search engine module. In this architecture, the packet processing device further has a table used for transferring and receiving information between the first processor in charge of the pre-search process and the second processor in charge of the post-search processor, and identifying information in a specified field of the table is transferred through the search engine module as a transparent medium.

One or more flow control modules, implemented on various types of network topologies, provide a number of functionalities for controlling the flow of IP packets (such as TCP/IP packets) over a network connection. The flow control modules may be implemented within a sender and/or receiver or may be deployed into a network as a separate device without requiring significant additional resources.

The present invention provides a three-dimensional digital entity magnifying glass technique-assisting and training/educational distribution system incorporating three-dimensional visual training functions by means of image composition that enables a three-dimensional visual instruction containing a depth when giving visual instructions to an HMD worn by a medical practitioner to thereby display only images of a pointing device or various kinds of instruments among image information of the instructor's CCD camera and synchronously and compositely displaying a three-dimensional visual training image output from an image-processing apparatus that can display an after-image of the image for an arbitrary time setting into image information of the CCD camera, thereby providing equal-scaling display of image information to which an instruction and a comment by use of a visual display/instruction image are added three-dimensionally as well as an instrument actually used by the instructors (groups of lecturers) on the three-dimensional HMD of the medical practitioner.

Output of a computer system is manipulated using a physical object disposed adjacent to an interactive display surface. A painting application produces an image in response to an object disposed adjacent to the interactive display surface. During each of a plurality of capture intervals, a set of points corresponding to the object is detected when the object is disposed adjacent to the interactive display surface. An image is projected onto the interactive display surface representing the set of points and is filled with a color or pattern. As successive sets of points are accumulated during each of a plurality of capture intervals, a composite image is displayed. An object can thus be used, for example, to “draw,”“paint,” or “stamp” images on the display surface. These images manifest characteristics of the object and its interaction and movement relative to the interactive display surface in a realistic manner.

A splicing system includes a splicer for seamlessly splicing togther digitally encoded data streams. In a preferred embodiment, the splicer preferably parses successive splice buffers of data stream data for a splice-out point and a splice-in point, closing an initial group of pictures GOP if needed. The preferred splicer further finds a new data stream real-time program clock reference PCR value for aligning new data stream decode/presentation, and aligns the new data stream start time. Concurrently, the splicer preferably uses a frame table to detect overflow and corrects such overflow by adding null packets, thereby delaying portions of data stream data. The splicer also preferably restores data stream encoding by deleting null packets, and thereby accelerating a portion of data stream data. In a further preferred embodiment, the splicer preferably uses a bit-clock schedule offset to delay or accelerate portions of data stream data.

Provided are methods for providing assistance to the user of a computer application program having a main user interface window, the methods comprising the steps of: determining when a user needs assistance to perform a program task; contextually displaying an assistance panel within the main user interface window which panel describes a user step to be conducted to perform a next task step; and detecting the user step conducted to perform the described task step while the assistance panel is displayed within the main user interface window. Also provided are systems and computer program products for implementing the methods of the present invention.

An SYNTAX automatic scoring method based on coronary angiogram image segmentation segments and extracts a coronary arterial tree and central line based on coronary angiogram images of a patient and employs a blood vessel side branch separation, reconnection and K main curve method, and generates a binary image of the coronary arterial tree The blood vessel segment numbers are automatically matched based on the SYNTAX scoring standard by employing a central line direction tracking method, and coronary artery pathological changes and adverse characteristics are identified and scored by selecting a coronary left (right) advantageous type in combination with the width attenuation degree of the cross section of the blood vessel and the curvature change of the center line, and the scores are calculated to give a reasonable score result to allow a doctor to employ optimal operation scheme. The method overcomes the problems of great computation amount, tedious calculating steps, complex scoring standard and long calculating time of artificial calculating SYNTAX scoring in conventional clinics.

A distributed query system includes a distributed collection of dynamically created compiled queries. As each client submits a query, a parameterized query skeleton is identified, which identifies the general form of the query, and the parameters associated with the particular query. If a compiled form of the skeletal query is available within the distributed system, it is executed with the parameters of the current query. If the compiled form of the skeletal query is not available within the distributed system, a compiled form is created, and the location of this compiled skeletal query is stored for subsequent access by this client, or other clients. The executable compiled skeletal queries may be stored at each client system, in a commonly available server storage system, or within one or more database servers. A routing system may be provided to efficiently route parameterized queries to the appropriate location(s) of the compiled skeletal query.

This invention provides a radio relay device with a small size and reduced cost which can prevent collision of communication data when the communication data are relayed in a plurality of radio networks.

The radio relay device relays the communication data between a parent device and a child device of a cordless telephone. The radio relay device includes a synchronization timing detector 16 for detecting a synchronization timing with the transmission of the parent device when relaying a packet transmitted from the parent device to the child device of a different radio network (piconet) and a timing correcting value buffer 20 for storing a correcting value computed from a difference between the synchronization timing and a clock in a bit counter 19. When the radio relay device relays the packet from the parent device to the child device, it communicates with the child device at the timing corrected on the basis of the correcting value extracted from the timing correcting value buffer 20.

A response-time-difference calculation/request-number converting means (523) calculates a change of throughput based on a response time monitoring result, a target value of the response time, a quantitative model and performance specification information. A server selection means (524) input the performance specification information in the quantitative model acquired to calculate a throughput of each of pool servers, selects a pool server having a throughput corresponding to a throughput larger than and closest to the change of throughput, and instructs provisioning means (513) to execute configuration modification control on the selected pool server (502). The provisioning means (513) modifies the configuration so that the pool server (502) functions as an application server.

By a search frequency information acquisition processing unit (11), search frequency setting information of a radio base station is received from a PC (30), and a condition such as a country name or the like is stored in a user setting information storage memory (21) whereas the frequency information to be used in that country is stored in a frequency information table (22). On the basis of the information of the search frequency stored in the user setting information storage memory (21) and the frequency information table (22), a surrounding radio base station is searched by a radio base station search processing unit (14).

A contoured adjustable baby or pet bathing cushion with a substantially oval shaped outer portion and a depressed central portion, the substantially oval shaped outer portion being provided with adjustable tabs to facilitate adjustment of the length of the cushion to accommodate an infant, a larger baby, or a pet.

An optical disk device for estimating optimum recording power for high speed recording at an outer part of an optical disk, with high accuracy, even when an OPC for high speed recording at the outer part cannot be performed. The optical disk device includes a first optimum recording power calculation part for performing test recording at a first speed lower than the maximum recording speed of a test area by using recording parameters of a required recording speed to calculate first optimum recording power, and a second optimum recording power calculation part for performing test recording at a second speed to calculate second optimum recording power. The first speed is different from the second speed. The optical disk device further includes an estimation part for estimating optimum recording power for based on the first optimum recording power and the second optimum recording power.

A mechanism for placing a telephone call while at the same time communicating context (e.g., subject, importance and/or nature) of the telephone call. The caller uses a mechanism on a user interface to instruct a caller computing system to place a telephone call to a callee computing system. Using the same user interface, the caller also identifies some contextual information for the telephone call such as, for example, the subject, importance and/or nature of the telephone call. The caller computing system then constructs a call invitation data structure that includes both an invitation to the callee to engage in a telephone conversation and the user-entered identification of the context of the telephone call. Upon receiving the call invitation data structure, the callee computing system reads the identification of the context of the telephone call, and then takes appropriate action based on the context for the telephone call.

Apparatus and methods for ablation efficacy are described herein where a hood having a deployable elongated feature can extend beyond a distal face of the hood. The elongated feature can channel the energy to the deeper regions within the tissue (such as trabeculated regions or other tissue structures) such that the energy can be delivered to the target tissue despite small or large irregularities in the target tissue surface (or region) and/or changes in the relative distances between the hood and the target tissue.

The invention discloses a system and a method for calibrating a transmission channel of a satellite borne multi-beam antenna system in real time. A transmission system channel calibration module generates an initial single-frequency-point radio frequency signal and changes the initial single-frequency-point radio frequency signal into a single-frequency-point digital signal by analog-to-digital (A/D) conversion, digital down-conversion and controller conversion; a transmission digital beam former (DBF) receives the single-frequency-point digital signal and generates a radio frequency signal by beam weighting, digital up-conversion and D/A conversion under the control of an original weight; the radio frequency signal which is transmitted through the transmission channel is sent back to the transmission system channel calibration module and compared with the initial single-frequency-point radio frequency signal to obtain the amplitude and phase information of the transmission channel by using a signal sampling and fast Fourier transformation (FFT) module; the amplitude and the phase information are input to a computer to obtain a calibration weight value of each radio frequency channel; the calibration weight value is input to the transmission DBF and then updated; and a compensated radio frequency signal is generated by using the transmission DBF and then output to each radio frequency channel. By the invention, the performance of the channel can be detected in real time, the channel can be calibrated, calibration accuracy and calibration efficiency are high, and high practicability is provided.

Methods and apparatus for smoothly and efficiently upgrading set top boxes, e.g., personal video recorders, which have customer selected content stored thereon are described. The described methods allow content stored on a set top box to be uploaded to a network storage device, e.g., automatically at a predetermined time prior to a scheduled upgrade, or in some cases, via manual control of the set top box to be upgraded. After stored content is uploaded to the network storage device, the set top box is replaced with a new set top box. The new set top box can be preloaded with the previously uploaded content or a content download can be triggered, e.g., by activating a hidden application and by supplying information identifying the set top box being replaced as part of the upgrade process.